One person died while nine others escaped the clutches of death by a whisker on Thursday last week when a Toyota Wish they were travelling in failed to negotiate a curve, veered off the road and hit a tree in Gweru. The deceased died on the spot while the nine, who suffered various degrees of injuries, are admitted at Gweru General Hospital.
Gweru City Council
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Twelve African farm labourers have died in a head-on collision between a van and a lorry near Lesina in the Foggia region of southern Italy. The labourers were returning from the fields, packed into a van which had Bulgarian number plates.
Three other people were injured in the crash, including the lorry driver.
Four migrant farm workers died in a similar
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Zimbabwe’s President Emmerson Mnangagwa said on Thursday he had been talking to opposition leader Nelson Chamisa to try to defuse tension over this week’s presidential election after violent clashes on the streets of Harare. Writing on Twitter, Mnangagwa also called for an independent investigation into the violence, in which three people were killed
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Two Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) officials who were recently dragged to court for allegedly facilitating the smuggling of roofing material worth $8 535 in import duty after demanding a R2 000 from a truck driver have been cleared of any wrongdoing. Wisdom Matsekedza (35) and Muchineripi Hokonya (32) were found not guilty and acquitted by Beitbridge
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A motorcyclist from Inyathi, Bubi District died in hospital following a head-on collision with a donkey-drawn scotch cart. Fungai Sibanda (33) died at Mpilo Central Hospital in Bulawayo on Monday following the freak accident near Ngwigwisi River on Saturday. A man who was in the cart said the donkeys panicked as Sibanda approached and encroached onto his lane.
“The donkeys
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A magistrate court will deliver a verdict on July 27 in the trial of musician Andrew Ngwenya — popularly known as Andy Muridzo — charged over a hit-and-run accident that resulted in three cars being damaged. Ngwenya, 37, is answering to charges of contravening the Road Traffic Act. He drove without a driver’s licence and also faces charges of reckless
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Pole dancer Zoey Sifelani is a worried woman as one of her dancers is in a coma two weeks after they were involved in an accident in Harare. The road traffic accident happened along Willowvale Road and two people died on the spot where Zoey and her crew had stopped to assist people who were involved in another collision.
At the time of the accident
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A Brave City Link bus driver yesterday saved the day when he grabbed the leg of an alleged robber who had snatched a bag containing about $10 000 as the bus was picking and dropping off passengers in Gweru. The incident happened at around 4:30PM at the stop over which is used as a pick-up and drop off point by luxury buses passing through Gweru
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Police have named 10 people who were killed when a Chinhoyi-bound Nissan Caravan and a haulage truck collided head-on at Mapinga along the Harare-Chirundu Highway on Tuesday night. One of the passengers sustained serious injuries. Chief police spokesperson Senior Assistant Commissioner Charity Charamba said the accident occurred at the 60km peg at around
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Ten people died while one sustained serious injuries in a head-on collision involving a Chinhoyi-bound Nissan Caravan and a haulage truck at Mapinga along the Harare-Chirundu Highway on Tuesday night. The accident occurred at around 10pm at the 60-kilometre peg where the ascent into the Great Dyke Pass begins.
The driver of the Nissan Caravan allegedly
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